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C. WILSON.

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Broom No. 236, 5 Patented Jan. 11,188l.

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CHARLES WILSON, OF ST. MARYS, ONTARIO, CANADA.

BROOM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 236,658, dated January 11, 1881.

Application filed October 16, 1880.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES WILsoN, a British subject, residing at St. Marys, in the county of Perth, Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented new and useful Improvements in Oorn Brooms, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the construction of brooms commonly known as house, carpet, or stable brooms or Whisks.

The object in view is to provide a cheap and strong broom in which short corn or corn of an inferior quality is employed.

The invention consists in a broom in which are combined a broom-fillin g, a flaring or tapering metal band surrounding the compressed end of the broom-filling, a series of parallel rivets or pins passing through the band and filling and secured in place, a series of wedges driven down through the compressed end of the filling with their wedge-shaped ends between the respective rivets or pins for binding the filling, and a handle held within the filling by a pin, the said members being constructed as will be more fully hereinafter described.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a broom constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section taken through the filling and its securing-band, the handle and the wedge-shaped blocks not being shown in section. perspective view of the hand, and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of one of the wedge-shaped blocks.

The letter A indicates the filling of broomcorn, which may be of the cheapest kind. This filling is compressed at its upper portion by any suitable means, and such compressed portion surrounded by a metal band, B, which is bent into the form of a parallelogram, as shown in Fig. 3, and fitted down upon the filling. This band is formed in any suitable way, such as by swaging, with flaring ends I), so as to admit of the spreading out of the filling, and it is provided with holes O, through which are passed the rivets D, in order that when the band is applied to the filling the rivets will pass through the upper portion of the filling, as illustrated in Fig. 2. It will be observed that the ends 13 of this band do not overlap, but after the band has been hammered down or compressed upon the filling such ends meet. The rivets adjacent to the ends of the band serve effectively to hold the Fig. 3 is a (No model.)

same together. After thus applying the band and securing it so that it will bind upon the filling, a series of wedge-shaped blocks, E, are inserted into the top portion of the filling, so as to crowd the same and pack tightly within the band. The points of these wedge-shaped blocks extend below the rivets, as shown in Fig. 2, so as to press portions thereof against and between the rivets. The central wedge of the series is formed by the wedge-shaped lower end,f, of the handle F. Such end of the handle is inserted into the filling and securely held by clout-nails or rivets g, which pass through the band and the handle. In this way I form a simple, cheap, and efficient broom, and by removing one or more of the wedges fresh filling material can be readily inserted.

I do not broadly claim a broom having the filling bound by a flaring metallic socket or band and transverse pins and provided with a handle driven down into the filling and confined by a pin, as such of itself is not new; neither do I claim a series of pegs driven into the bound end of the filling, the filling being provided with a surrounding hand attached to-a circular block bearing on the pegs and formed with a handle, such is not new.

It will be observed that I employ in the combination composing my structure a series of wedges driven down into the filling between the transverse rivets or pins, and I thus provide an exceedingly cfficieut means for binding the filling in place.

What I claim is The combination, in a broom, of the broomfilling A, the flaring or tapering metal band B, surrounding the compressed end of the filling, the series of parallel transverse rivets or pins D, passing through the band and filling, the series of parallel wedges E, driven down through the com n'essed end of the filling with their wedge-shaped ends between the respect ive rivets or pins for bin-ding the filling, and the handle F, held within the filling by a pin, 9, the said members being constructed and arrangedin the described relation substantially as shown.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

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